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Rich Towards God | Elder Wong Kien YiaK
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You're listening to a message to go from acts Church. We hope this message
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will light up your day today. I just wanted to share something with your
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which I caught from reading my Bible. Is something with This term is called
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reach towards God. Reach towards God, riach to God. It's from directly
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from Scripture. Look chapter twelve, verse the teen. All right, look
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chapter twelve, verse their teen. I'm just going to do a self devotion
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with earth. Then one of the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell
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my brother to divide inheritance with me verse fourteen. But he said to him,
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man who made me a judge and arbitrator over you verse fifteen. That
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he said to them, take here, beware of conrteousness, for once life
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does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. I'm not sure how
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many of you really would ask this question in front of Jesus, which made
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this one. I'm trying to say, this is God, miracle worker,
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of all the things the man could ask for. He's asking for earthly inheritors
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instead of an eternal destination. Nicko Dimmers. When he met Jesus, he
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was asking her, what must I do to have eternal life? How can
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I be born again? Other people was asking Jesus about, like how is
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it that you can call yourself the son of man? But here's an individual
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of all the things he could ask, he said, teacher, please tell
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my brother to give me the inheritance. And you know, God a ready
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Jesus Christ that he would use something to minister to people's heart. He first
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says that take him beware of consteousness. He's trying to tell this individual that
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be careful what you're asking for, because many times we pray ask God for
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open doors, not knowing what lies behind the door, what will actually captivate
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our heart and our attention. That he goes in deeper. He says that
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life does not consist in the bundance of things. Now, before you store
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me and just say that you try to talk me, talk to me about
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our money management. No, I just wanted to show something. If you're
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in verse sixty, then he spoke the parable a ground of a certain rich
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man, you plentiful. Now there is no problem with the ground. In
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fact, God wants to see an increase. That He thought to himself,
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saying, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops.
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So he said, I will do this. I will pull down my
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bonds and build greater, and therefore I will store all my crop and all
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my goods. Verse nineteen, that I say to my soul, so you
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have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat,
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drink, and be merry. God knew exactly what was going on in the
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individual yours heart. He wasn't against the ground, yielding, plentiful or beingful,
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but he was after worse nineteen when the individuals say that, so you
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have many goods laiter for many years, Take your ease, eat, drink,
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and be merry. In fact, friends, there is no thought of
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God in this rich man's life. Many times our journey of life, we
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accumulate. We do. We accumulate one thing another one. Friends. Some
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almost are very good accummulating wealth, savings. Praise God, you have a
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gift of savings. Other power verse are very good accumulating tes, very good.
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We have very good one. Every time we tap out we have we
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will put it aside. Okay, we'll put it aside. We show one
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can use one more time, two more time. Right. Sometimes the coward
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also we still use it can, so you can use because the fish,
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we still can't. We accumulate, so we will say we still have stuff
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from our primary school, right, cannot let go a lot of memories.
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I mean right around. That's not I'm not talking about right around. I'm
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just saying we like to accumulate. We are commut stem coins, right,
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we do, some communicate clothings, right, we do, friends, we
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do the problems of the commulation. The problem is what we're doing, what
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we're cummlate. This was what God was after with the rich man's heart,
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because it's said this that wor streateing. But God said to it full this
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night your soul require of you. Then who's will those things be which you
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have provided? See many times in our journey of life, isn't it true
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that the more we accumulate, the more we have, we find it hard
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to let go. We really really finding how to let go on. First
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up, don't talk about money. It's like, okay, just put money
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out the picture. I've always talking about money. To put on the other
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picture. The stuff we have right now, the stuff we have right now.
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Sometimes some of us here we got Christmas caps that we get from Christmas,
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give exchange someone whos are very quick give it immediately, but some of
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us sees still have it in our cupboard. Say one day I will use
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it. One day I have guests in the house, we have stuff that
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we need to get rid off, already give it away so we can repurpose
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and recycle for other people to use it. But we still are still keeping
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it. We say one day I will use it. But this is what
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Jesus after because he said that I'm here to bless you, to be a
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blessing you. We are just called to be stewards of what God has given
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us. So it's someone that manages God. What is it that you want
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me to do? But many times that when God bless us us, that
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God, thank you so much, it stops with me. So we're fifteen
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is where I'm trying to get that. Take here, beware of conveteousness,
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for once life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. Let
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me read the New Living Translation to your beware God against every greed. Conveciousness
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is actually greed for something that you don't have. We live in the world
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whereby when we see pictures, I want what their person is having. I
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want what she is heavy, I want what he is having. And many
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times in our journey we're always asking God, if only I can have what
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he's having, that I'll be happy. But God is trying to go deeper
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in our hearts that possession doesn't make us happy more happy. The more you
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have doesn't mean we are more happy with it. So let me just try
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to break it down for us. Beware of conveciousness to be reaching God.
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God's asking us to be reaching him. He says, it's twenty one.
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What's twenty So sorry, I'm just dropping here and there. Just allow me
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just to read one final scripture that for him who lays up treasure for himself
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is not rich towards God. He will lay up treasure for himself is not
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rich towards God. I find one of the hardest things as a believer.
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It's not the focus on self in is hard. When I was in UK,
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I love people, I love the campus asked me question, how do
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I know that God wants me to stay in the UK. How do I
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know God wants me to stay in UK? When you when you travel just
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fine, if you go to Melbourne, They ask the same thing. You
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know, campusill graduated, They want to find a job that how do I
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know that God wants me to stay in this land? And my answer is
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always very saef. I say that if God is in the picture, if
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your motivation to stay because of a job, though, because your job will
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come and go, your job will come and go, I say, your
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motivation to stay in the place has to be bigger than the job. If
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you say that to this job, I can stay. I want to be
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part of the church that God. God has to be in the center.
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When the job expectation gets higher, God does it get push out the window.
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There is no way. When God blesses a person, we get more
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busy at job, and our commitment to the lot shrinks. Our desire to
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know Him shrink, our faith in Him shrink, and after a wild friends,
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we come to a place whereby our faith is just attendance. Now before
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you store me, friends, do not like that your afternoon service. I
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know, I know it's Harry Hart. Okay, I know you could be
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sleeping already right. But to be reached towards God is to avoid the coversousness
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lifestyle. To be reached towards God's to award the coloriousness lifestyle. We live
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in the januation, whereby it is very easily to fall into this trip.
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For example, let it's just through the one one scripture, therefore put to
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death the members which are funication and cleanness. Passion even desires friends, who
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wants who can all this fortification? It's a physical act. Right you're a
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white Okay, even desires you if you know it's even your white right.
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Consteousness is part of it, which is idolatry. You don't make consciousness and
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idolatry immediately were no friends. It is very subtle. It is so subtle
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that it starts with God, if only I have and when the door opens
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to walk in it, wow, it's nice. Slowly, but surely we
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finally have to let go. See as believers friends, I truly believe that
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none of us they won't make ideas of anything. One. Isn't it true
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if it's an either you run away as believers, right as believers when you
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see things, and either you run away but couldn't be friends. Our hearts
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are solely pulled away from the Lord, and we don't even know it,
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solely being dragged away from God. And we don't even know it, and
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we use this state. But I can manage. I still believe in God.
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I still serve him in my own way. First, at todies that
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XPI, I say God that it is not after all talents he is not.
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We're always offer all talents up to the Lord. He never asks for
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our talents. He always asks for our hearts. He always asks for our
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hearts first. Our talents is secondary. Friends, but many times you offer
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about talents to him. Now are our hearts. And that's why sometimes our
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worship is personal worship. There is no power because our heart is not in
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it. Therefore, put to death your members, which are on earth.
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He didn't say manage. He don't say that you can manage your consteousness.
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He's asking you ears this afternoon that some things in life you're not supposed to
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entertain. Friends. I know nice things are nice. Friends. We all
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like nice things. But it is not wrong to like nice things, but
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to have nice things to detend. This is how you should live. Then
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we are in trouble whip. But one day, friends, I know of
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a sleep in airconn room. Majority of us. One day the air con
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room doesn't work. For four days are you yes, for four days doesn't
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work? Can we still sleep and praise God the next day? What point
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if if the comfort is no longer there for a season, this is a
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season or forever for a season, can we still say God is still faithful?
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Because many times in life we make a lot of eithers in the life,
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but we find it hard to let go and God this after the wants
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who minister to us, because take heat, beware, beware of the colatures
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that's in our hearts. Let me just read a few scriptures to your luke
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Chapter sorry, med Few, chapter six twenty four. No one can save
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to masters. You can't. The Bible did not ask us to manage to
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masters. As believers, we think we can manage or you know, manage
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this and manage that. God has never asked us to manage it. No
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one can save to master either he hit the one and love the other,
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or else he'll be loyal to one and despise the other. God really knows
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our hearts. He already could see through our excuses. He can already see
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through our motive. Because many we try to manage, manage our faith,
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manage God. But God always ask us to surrender. You say if we
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surrender the amendment, we just have the acknowledge of your surrending amendment. But
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if we're surrender to God, we have this is this is the Lord.
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And many times when we go to water, but please, we also say,
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do you confess that Jesus Christ is the person, Lord and Savior.
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Every one of them will say, I do one, but I do stop
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after one month because it is he still Lord in the midst of the business,
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and not it is he still Lord in the midst of my business.
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Not because if he is, then therefore there has to be a brick to
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in our life. Friends, He says, therefore, be aware thet's just
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just read to your filmal scriptures a right psalms oneman night worse to the tree
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because coatures is an idolatree. God wants us to put it to death.
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Sounds one night Verse to the tree speaks to us a way out. Teach
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me, oh Lord, your statutes, so I can keep it to the
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end. Teach me, oh Lord, your status, so I may keep
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it to the end. God expect us to ask him really to understand his
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word. Worse, if I give me a understanding such and keep your Lord
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indeed I shall observe, observe it with all my whole heart. Worse they
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teach worse the before I say, and give me understanding. One of the
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dangers of modern Christianity is with our foundation of faith was not It's not found
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on the word, but rather on the songs that we sing. The foundation
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of faith is not found in the scripture because we had the scripture, but
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we actually move, we know, actually no more songs, and our theology
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comes from the songs rather from the scripture and God. This afterwards encourage us
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that get into the world word. You see, to get rid of that
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that self focused on self. Friends, you need to put the flesh to
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death, where as you put the flesh with that. I'm not asking us
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to crucify to pin and stuff like, Okay, I'm saying that saying by
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saying yes to God, we are actually crucifying the flesh some of us.
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You are delivered anger we have we have we have this and seen anger in
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our hearts, and forgiveness is one of them. We had to. We
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have to forgive people deep hatred, deep seated and forgiveness. But God is
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asking us to forgive. But how did you don't understand the person took advantage
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from me. Yes, he understands. You still have to forgive the person
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hurt me with these words. Yes, you still have to forgive. You
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don't understand. Yes, I may not fully understand what happened. But God's
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word is asking us to let go and trust him. Many times in our
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life we find it hard because we always think that it doesn't apply to me.
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One of the hardest thing as a follow of Christ is to deal things
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with the matters of a heart. Giving money is slightly easier. I'm not
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saying it's easy, slightly easier. Matters of the heart is the hardest.
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None of us say it, will confess and ever say that we have a
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spirit of consciousness. None. But if we actually go deeper in the hearts,
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and sometimes we do have we do, and God wants to go deeper
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because he wants us to have a breakthrough. He's asking us that life doesn't
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consist, or rather, life is not found in the things that we accumulate.
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How many people actually have the identity in the workplace, in the possession
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and stuff like that. The moment when there's no more work, no more
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identity, no more life, the moment you don't have a certain thing.
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There's no more identity nor more worth. That's why Jesus has a minister to
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this individual by say that do don't you know that you're of value? That
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if I could fit the birds of the air, I can feed you as
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well. Aren't you so much more valuable than the birds of the air.
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Many times in our journey as a Christian and we tend to forget that we
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are out of value. That's why God created us. We are the only
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creatures that God made in his image. We are the only beings made in
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God's image, friends, and that's why we are so valuable. The Satan
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always want to dilute the value. He always wants Do you know when the
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last temptation that of Jesus, When say brought Jesus up on the mouth and
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sis saity to Jesus, the devil took him out actually high mountain and presented
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to the whole I show him the whole kingdoms of the world and the glory.
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He said this to Jesus, if you bowther the worship and all they
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belongs to you. Friends, it is not a one level promotion. There
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is a pinnacle of success. Really, there is something which you never had
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before, and the moment that when it was presented, if it's presented to
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you, I guarantee us declaring myself, we will struggled to actually say that.
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I shall only say God. Sometimes when you see this opportunity, you
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know what most Christian I say, it will be not praise God for his
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provision. But Jesus, new friends, it's more than the kingdom, is
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more than everything. It's after the worship. See the spirit of college comes.
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Friends. He wants to rob me of your worship towards him, really
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wants to rob the worship of your worship towards him. That's why Jesus said
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that away from you saytan, it's written you shall worship the lot your God.
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Only him shall you surf? Very easy friends, to bow because you
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never had it. You work so hard for something. Finally when it's presented
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to you are Yeah, got provided my brick shore I can share testimony.
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There's our coordinator in uh. His name is Young. He's a very busy
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auditor. He really works. I think I heard one time he worked until
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what he fated at his job. I don't know how it is why he
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fated his job. Friends, right. I thought Malaysia, Malaysia audience bad
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really, but that one next level. Okay, maybe it's just him,
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but but it means of his business. Fast day was that said means of
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business. One thing, one thing Dave was just telling me was this,
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that he's so busy, but yet when he's free, when he's free,
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he'll try to make time for some of the boys in Bristol. He'll catch
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up with their have meal with them, buy them meal, and just do
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fellowship and discipleship with them. And recently when they took a photograph, I
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could see all of them very honoring to the calling his name is young,
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honoring to a sim and they say that young, come, we want to
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take picture with you. Without you, we don't take this picture right.
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You know, when you're when you're squeezed for time, time is your greatest
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commodity, the most expensive comedy you have. And every three time that you
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have are you just want to isolate yourself? I just want to recuperate,
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refresh, rejuinge it or the reor there right, recharge everything. But he
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would take time to meet with the boys. Though I thought to myself,
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what such a pastor's heart, such a pass side. If it was me,
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I say, I was asking myself, if it was you, what
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would I do? I would just say, watch the DVD, watch a
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video, or speak to other leaders. I got no time for such a
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pass is free time? Free time. God meet with people and say that,
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hey, I know I'm tired of coming to my house and and have
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and I heard it's like, well, just come over to my house and
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we cook then together. And I thought to myself that this is the person,
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friends, this is the person that understood that it's not about accumulation.
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But this was understood that my job doesn't define my worship in a sense of
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like it should have robbed me of my worship. But yeah, I show
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use the remainia of my time to serve the Lord. So let me just
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give you a someone and I worse thirty five. Make me walk in the
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path of your commandments, for I delight in it. Make me walk in
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the path of your commandments. I delight in it. One of the things
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that you will find is this that the word of the Lord, friends,
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is not for us is to memorize, but it's for us as well to
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apply. It's easy to sing songs, harder to apply God's worth. It's
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easy to things are harder to apply God's worth. And God wants earth to
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apply because break two comes for application. Brig two doesn't come in memory.
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It big two comes for application. Friends, how much you believe, how
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much you apply, you will get a break to all of us here a
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wired in a particular manner. But to have a break, true friend is
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to renew our mind. That's why your show chapter one, it is that
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meditate this book day and night, and you will find good success. But
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the meditation must be translated into action. That miss our hearts freends and the
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day must change. I say that God has never asked our talent, always
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ask for our hearts, but many Christians offer our talents only God, I'm
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talented, Here you go go. My talent, our hearts is so far
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away. One of the persons I met at Cam asked me a question.
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You know, sayda, should I go back to Malaysia to work? I
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say, why, I really miss my parents. I really miss my parents.
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As I heard you share about your journey with your mom, I told
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my parents I want to go back that I look at her. I just
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say, sister, I say you decided to work here a ready number one.
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You have to carry on. But more importantly, I say, sister,
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you engage to a local guy in a stability desn. I say,
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it's a massive decision to relocate back to Malaysia. I say, your fiance,
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we'll find it very heart I say, why don't you prayer? Ask
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God for wisdom because I know. I say, what is it the picture
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that you want? Go back to your parents, stay with your parents,
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you and your future husband, go stay together your parents? What is it
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that you want? I say, In your time with your parents, are
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you honoring or not? It's very easy to say, I honor my parents.
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I say, in your time, so this thing, but my times
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to her. In your time with your parents, in the meal time of
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your parents, are you looking at your phone? Are you engaging in conversation
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because the desire to go back? Oh? I missed my parents, so
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I want to go back right. So I'm taking for worse thirty five worst?
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The five way is that make me bout your path? I delight in
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it. I say, when you honor your parents, honor by being fully
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present, that makes you engage your conversation Because a lot of times I want
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to show up I won't be there, but your heart is not really in
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there. Many times we want to work in God's commandment, but we never
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but we don't delighten it. When God speaks to us really about the way
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we live, do we delighting it? For example, show kindness, show
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patience, be generous, or awake up lative? I remember one time I
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went out dinner with six other leaders in church. How are we eating?
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Then God spoke to me and covered the bill on your own, Say God,
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all of us here, you know, I'm sure other people take a
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bit of no no when you cover it. Bless them right now. I
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know some of you a bit okay out there one can, but full time
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worker also an exceptional from these kind of things, right, so I want
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you to cover the only tangle bus I will provide for you. I'm like,
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God, did you know full time full time always an exception? Imma?
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I know this is a general jet that the general sai, Yes,
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you'll be a blessing, but full time worker. So I actually awaited that.
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I really wanted those say you know, it's just cut the handle and
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the butle left the table so I would pick up the b one I wanted
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to to live the bill on the table, so I would just say,
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let me pay first. There we all divite a share because spoke so clearly
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to me. I one you you trust the work right. Those who fresh
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others, they themselves will be refreshed. We all like to be refreshed by
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other people, but don't like to refresh other people. Come and let me
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share. We all like to be refreshed, but we're find it hard to
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refresh other people. Now, some of you, I know, very generous,
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prais a lot, but I'm speaking to people like myself, so they're
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finding something very hard as we those type months. And God said you have
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I say, God, I don't have you have? I say, God,
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there, then what is it in your back count? God? You
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don't undsemp them? Be? Is it? Now? I know it's not
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much, But this is my constant struggle because when you talk about the lighting
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in God's way, God will always challenge us things that God I don't understand.
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Why must it be me? Why must it be me? Why must
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it be me? Lord? So remember ticking up the bill, I pay
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for it quietly, I just say set it. I just felt the very
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moment, friends, there was a break trough in my heart. Fifty ring
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it easy, hungary, easy for six people all of a sudden, that
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you didn't tell them that once it's from you and stuff that just keep just
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paid the bill and that's it. Just move on the next agenda. I
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realized what importantly I find that when God speaks to our hearts, you don't
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like you. Isn't it true? That's why the Bible used the word I
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deli in it because it's always against our flesh. It's always against how we
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think, how we behave word incline my heart to your testimony and not to
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convesteousness. Your heart is always going to be presented with two options. One
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it's God's word, got testimony, got brig sho. The one is the
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world's way how people are getting rich. One of the one of the students
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I was already a graduate I was talking to. I felt intimidated because I
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said, where you graduate from Cambridge? Okay, I want to I want
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to ask, have you heard a more national So anyway I graduate from Cambridge?
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I'm like, oh no, like, oh God, all these intellectually,
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but anyway, no, I I truly believe. I truly believe my
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own strength every time I made mistake everything. I very hard myself, had
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to try, ask God hard, to trust God. And every time I
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made mistake, I'm always hard on myself. Tell myself to improve, tell
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myself get better and live myself. So there's no got in the picture by
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the christioner. So look at him. I said, whether you've got to
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allow God to come in because there's something your wisdom cannot apply on. You're
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good in business, but you're not good in health. I say now that
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my next ques, I said, you got good friend, not God?
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Say have you have? You? Do you argue your good friend? Not?
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Many times? Let me guess where if she made a mistake, you
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try, you tell her to get better? Right? Better you she makes
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a mistake, you tell to improve right? Rather she made me say,
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you tell that you have to upgrade her software to vision two point zero?
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Right? See yeah? I said, how how good did they? How?
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What a composition you have? How good your what was a composition?
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Out there? Always in argument? So of course you tell how to improve
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our she you would? I say, in life, you cannot control everything.
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I say, next time you marry your girlfriend, you have kids,
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what pell are you going to give your kids to obey you. What pell
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are you going to give your kids to obey you? Well, how much
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money I'm going to give your kids to listen to you? I said,
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there's no such thing as giving money for your children to obey you, or
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given giving them the latest toys. No, as a parent, you can
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pray. You have the must have faith in God to apply pray for your
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kids. I spoke to a mom early this morning and she was just telling
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my elder I was praying for my child for this right deployment. She's working
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in the government, right deployment in the government sector. I was praying and
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praying and praying, and my son got it and then was encouraging her.
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Do you know my mom's pray God listens. I've heard many testimony moms pray
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well test me I heard. I still remember now. There was a there
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was a very famous picture say when he was young, he skips school,
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went to cinema, skip school when cinema thought parls will know until halfway through
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the show, the door opened at the back, hurts his mother's voice at
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the back. There are you in the cinema. If you are, I
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want you to come out right now. This is a mom he came out.
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He asked about, how do you know who told you God? I
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was praying, God, give me a picture that you are in the cinema,
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and that's why I came. I remember that stories very well because I
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know when a praying mom praise God listens. See, it's either we believe
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that God listens to our prayer or not. Friends, That's why the Bible
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says that make me work in your paper with your commandments. I delight in
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it. In climb my heart to your testimony, and not to coach.
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Our heart is very easily get sway, get the word is getting distracted and
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use what seduced to the other side, because it's very subtle. Of friends,
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we always like nice things we do. That's why in buff you always
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go after the nice stuff on. I have never seen anybody gow rice,
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very very rare. But come on, you understand what I'm playing, even
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very rare right right now. I have not seen every even mixure before,
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not have you even Max sure. I've not seen mintion, my friends.
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I've been them mixed a few times, really a few times. Really.
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I have not seen power up veshetable. I have not seen power love vegetable
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even though it's good, but he is always green after value. Again,
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I'm trying to say nothing wrong with nice stuff, but see how sattle it
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is. Sometimes then we get side tracked every this I'm going to close you.
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Life is not found with the bondance of things. Friends, Life is
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not found the bundance of things. Many times in our journey we think abundance
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of things equals to being alive. That's how the worst is. The more
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you accumulate, the more alive you are. The more you accumulate, the
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more alive you are. The world plays value or the things together, but
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the Bible reminds us that our so it's more valuable than the things we gethered
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Matthew Chapter six was twenty six. For what profit is it to a man
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if he gives the whole world but loses his own soul? Yes, you
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may have everything, but if your soul is not there, if he loses
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your identity in God, what will a man giving exchange for his own soul?
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God? This more, he wants to heal people's hearts because we are
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in a race. Sometimes you are the word is that so challenged, so
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tempted? So the word is that even as a church sometimes we could be
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as a church, we could be tempted to emulate, to copy what other
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people are doing. Every church has a blueprint, has a plan. I
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was talking to one person for XPGA. She was just telling me out,
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I just wanted you to know that, hearing so many test waits about the
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church, I'm so proud of the church because I came to this church when
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I was aged fifteen, came to know this is fifteen about the very my
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very first copy of the White two magazine, and in the magazine I felt
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so encarbaged. Words is that she used us. I felt so encouraged,
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on fire and revive in my spirit. I want to do something for God.
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And right now, being here for now, I think she's now church
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for almost fifteen years already, I see all those things that we're describing a
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magazine back then now coming to pass. Back then, when at first open
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the magazine and sub articles, I thought that this is can never happen on,
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can never happen on. I used to mock it, I used to
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laugh at it, But now I really believe that it's coming to pass.
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And she was just shoving all that and she's just said this to me and
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say, elder, if there's any way you want me to help for the
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magazine. Let me know, really, friends, what profits of man begins
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the whole world but losers is so we are not called to build the biggest
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church. You're not. It's just called to build a faithful church, a
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fitful church, faithful to the plan that God has given us, fitfuld to
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the person that God wants us to reach, faithfood, to do what God's
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want us to do. Yes, we're we're not going to plan in every
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big cities where God asks the plan, you'll plan then, you and I
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today, friends, we are called to be faithful, not successful. In
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the faithfulness. You will find success, friends, but doesn't mean you're successful.
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You'll be faithful. That's why Jesus say that he must increase an I
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decrease. John Chapter three, verse the tea. Do you know that the
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rich man decided that I will build the barn? Everything everything is all about
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me? And God said tonight your life will be acquiet from you. Friends.
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Is not a warning, but it's really a reminder for all of us
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here today. Your life is determined by the Lord. It's not how much
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we can get off from this world, but really of the day. We
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are all verys here stewards. I don't encourage you because as I look at
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paved pass Cat's life in London to give up. She gave up a career
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here to relocate the follow her husband to do missions. I'll be uk.
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Yes, a lot of people say, A lot of people don't said they
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thought you Oka very fun, very nice. It is fun and it's nice,
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nice location, everything's nice. Their heart is located at the place called
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Camden. Very nice place, the heart of punk rock, birthplace of doctor
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Martin's shoes. Very nice place. But yet in the midst of every day
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out there, they don't What they don't see is that many nights, many
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days, we would labor almost in vain. There's once one of the stories
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they share with me was there was a student they help out, they carry
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the staff, clean up the apartment, help her to set her in everything,
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only to turn back and just say I don't believe in you. Now.
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They didn't do all that to win the person. At least I thank
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you would be something suffice. But yet to the discouragement, Yet to the
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asked positive a question, have you ever thought about giving Amanah away from family?
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Man have you ever thought about giving Amanah? Seldom? Many times.
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In fact, a couple of years ago, I think last year, a
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couple of years ago, there was there was a very tough moment for himself
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and Cat. I mean you can say at that time we just felt through
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the towers enough of this church planting already when they come back, being family,
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safe environment. But we knew that God has not called back yet.
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I'm sharing this with you, my son, a conversation, because I wanted
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us here to know. Sometimes in our journey we are pursuing things accumulating,
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but God is always after our hearts. It's also so much about being in
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London and being qualit, but really wherever we are, God wants to work
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in our hearts. God didn't wasn't against inheritance. He was against a spirit
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in one thing, the extra in our worship, in our service to the
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lot of friends. Many times our challenge is this that God, I still
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serve you. Of course I've never just wanted your service. I always want
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your I always want your heart. Is there something once I spoken, will
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you change? An? Oh, you don't understand we have for me to
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change. God has never asked for excuses. He always ask us I was
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surrendered. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information on
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our church, please visit as Church do RG. We are also active on
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week ahead for you. God bless